Siren in blonde
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Siren in blonde |
| Original title | Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1957 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Frank Tashlin |
| script | Frank Tashlin |
| production | Frank Tashlin |
| music | Cyril J. Mockridge |
| camera | Joseph MacDonald |
| cut | Hugh S. Fowler |
| occupation | |
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Siren in Blond (Original title: Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? ) Is an American feature film from 1957 based on a play by George Axelrod .
action
Rockwell Hunter is a copywriter for a major New York advertising agency . The agency's biggest client is the producer of the Stayput lipstick , and this one is about to drop out. Rock Hunter would be fired in this case, which would be a disaster for him as he is responsible for his niece April, and teenagers are expensive and he wants to marry his secretary Jenny Wells very soon. April is a big fan of the movie star Rita Marlowe. Rita has just broken up with her lover, Bobo Branigansky, an athletic Tarzan actor. She flies from Hollywood to New York with her assistant Violet and is greeted by numerous fans at the airport, including April. Rockwell Hunter is inspired by his niece's fanaticism to launch an advertising campaign for the lipstick with Rita Marlowe as the central figure. April reveals the whereabouts of Rita Marlowe. When Rockwell visits her to make her an offer, Rita tries to make her ex-lover Bobo jealous of Rockwell over the phone . Rockwell is quickly named the Marlowe's new lover. Should Rockwell take on this role, he would get Rita Marlowe in return for the advertising campaign. Rockwell becomes Lover Doll and becomes world famous through the staged love affair. In doing so, he saved the advertising agency, rose to become a board member and finally chairman of the board. His relationship with Jenny Wells threatens to fail with the success, however, because she also believes the affair with Rita Marlowe. However, Rita Marlowe has loved old George Schmidlap, who discovered her, since she was a teenager. Last but not least, Rockwell gets his advertising campaign, Rita gets her George Schmidlap, Rockwell is happy with Jenny Wells, his colleague Henry Rufus gets Rita's assistant Violet, the former boss Irving La Salle Junior is allowed to turn his hobby rose growing into a full-time job. Rockwell had dreamed of raising chickens when he was young and can make that dream come true together with Jenny.
background
Jayne Mansfield played the role of Rita Marlowe in the Broadway production of Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? and was thereby discovered for Hollywood. The play was originally a satire on the American film business. Tashlin moved the setting to New York and turned it into a satire on television advertising. The name Rita Marlowe was made up of the names of the three greatest Hollywood divas: Rita Hayworth , Marilyn Monroe and Jean Harlow . Mansfield then also plays a shrill parody of these three women.
Mickey Hargitay can be seen in the role of Bobo . Hargitay is a former Mr. Universe who later became Mansfield's husband and father of three of their five children.
Reviews
" Persiflage of advertising, addiction to success and all kinds of practices in the show industry. [...] Lively, lively comedy."
"A splendidly witty glossing of TV commercials and other American bad habits, such as star cult, Hollywood eroticism, addiction to success, psychoanalysis." - 6000 films. Critical notes from the cinema years 1945 to 1958 "
Awards
Tony Randall received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a Comedy category in 1958 .
In 2000, Siren in Blonde was inducted into the National Film Registry .
synchronization
The first German dubbed version was created in 1957 by Elite Film Franz Schröder GmbH, Berlin, under the dubbing direction by Rolf von Sydow, based on the dialogue book by Fritz A. Koeniger . A second dubbed version was created for publication on DVD .
| role | actor | Voice actor 1957 | Voice actor NEW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rita Marlowe | Jayne Mansfield | Ingeborg Wellmann | Regina Lemnitz |
| Rockwell P. Hunter | Tony Randall | Eckart Dux | Jürgen Thormann |
| Irving La Salle Jr. | John Williams | Siegfried Schürenberg | Friedrich Schoenfelder |
| Jenny | Betsy Drake | Sigrid Lagemann | - |
| Rufus | Henry Jones | Alexander Welbat | - |
| Violet | Joan Blondell | Dorle Hintze | - |
Web links
- Sirene in Blond in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Siren in Blond in the online movie database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Siren in blonde. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 18, 2017 .
- ↑ Siren in blonde. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on April 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Siren in blonde. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on April 15, 2020 .